Wigan Athletic 2-0 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 31 March 2012
Result
Wigan Athletic 2-0 Stoke City
Premier League · Saturday 31 March 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Wigan Athletic 2-0 Stoke City: match report
Wigan Athletic defeated Stoke City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 31 March 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.
A. Alcáraz opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Wigan Athletic's goals came from A. Alcáraz (55') and Victor Moses (90+3'). Stoke City did not score.
Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 2 yellow cards; Stoke City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 19th on 25 points from 30 and Stoke City 12th on 38 points from 30. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Stoke City 14th with 45.
Wigan Athletic lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Wigan Athletic win, 5 draws and 1 for Stoke City.
Going into the match Wigan Athletic's last five read W-D-D-L-D and Stoke City's D-D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · M. Wilson
- 34'Yellow card · Jean Beausejour
- 34'Yellow card · Emmerson Boyce
- 54'Yellow card · Glenn Whelan
- 55'Goal · A. Alcáraz
- 71'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 76'Yellow card · Andy Wilkinson
- 90+3'Goal · Victor Moses
Head-to-head
Team news
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-4-1-1)
Ali Al-Habsi, Antolín Alcaraz, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, James McCarthy, Victor Moses, James McArthur, Jean Beausejour, Franco Di Santo, G. Caldwell, Shaun Maloney, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez
Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Robert Huth, Matthew Upson, Danny Higginbotham, Andy Wilkinson, Wilson Palacios, Salif Diao, Kenwyne Jones, Cameron Jerome, Rory Delap